In this post I would talk about Oracle Endeca Commerce solution. This post is a brief overview of all the important packages of Oracle Endeca Commerce. If you are in a hurry then you can scroll down take a look at the mind map.

The Endeca Log Server is a stand-alone server that translates application logging requests into flat log files. These files are later streamed through the Report Generator and transformed into configurable reports. [as per official documentation]

The Endeca Control System provides a way to control and administer your Endeca implementation. [as per official documentation] Other than the above mentioned four components, platform services also gives us reference applications like Discover Electronics. It also provide a utility named “emgr_update” to upload/download Endeca instance configuration to/from Workbench.

Presentation API is the interface between your application and the MDEX engine. Presentation API let your application to query Oracle Endeca records from MDEX engine. Presentation API is available for Java and .Net.

Oracle Endeca Developer Studio is a Windows application can be used to define all aspects of your instance configuration. Developer Studio helps developer to assemble and configure pipeline components for processing source data. [as per official documentation]

The Endeca Content Acquisition System is a collection of components to add, configure, and crawl data-sources like Content Management Systems, Custom Format Data, Web Content and File System. CAS crawl data and convert it to Endeca records.

Oracle Endeca Rapid Application Development Toolkit for ASP.Net provides a set of web service controls to build Oracle Endeca applications.

Oracle Endeca Experience Manager

Oracle Endeca Experience Manager is the new name for Endeca Page Builder. Experience Manager get installed as a component in the Workbench. As of today you need a separate license for Oracle Endeca Experience Manager. More details can be found in this link. Refer this post to install Experience Manager in Windows. I will be writing more on Oracle Endeca Experience Manager and Assembler API in the coming days.

Oracle Endeca for Mobile

Oracle Endeca for Mobile provides an integrated cross channel consistency in delivering your products and services to your clients. You can find more from the official documentation.

Oracle Endeca for Social

Oracle Endeca for Social is the latest edition in the Oracle Endeca Commerce product line. Endeca for Social provides connectors to ingest data from social networking site Facebook. It also gives us capability to hook to Facebook OpenGraph using Experience Manager cartridges. You can find more from the official documentation.

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Fantastic work on Oracle Endeca Commerce Solution Mind Map. You are right although there is enough documentation available but it takes time to understand the big picture. But this really helps to relate the things we learn through documentation.